Day at Sea

July 11, 2010

Our highlight of the day was cruising between Sicily and the toe of Italy. We got to see the “heel” of the boot all the way past the toe from the back of the boat in a hot tub. At first we didn’t realize what land we were looking at, but the more we looked and thought the geography started to make since when thinking about a map. Also when we were passing by Sicily, we started hearing this “poof, poof, poof, poof, boom!” “poof, poof, poof, poof, boom!” “poof, poof, poof, poof, boom!” off in the distance. I jokingly stated that I wondered if it was the Mafia was shooting at us. As the sound continued, we started looking around to figure out what the noise and sure enough there were the perfect towers of gun smoke that were the same number of rounds we heard. So we don’t know if Sicily was saluting us as we past, something like they do in College Station when trying to get rid of the birds, or if it really was the Mafia shooting us. Well the ship wasn’t hit and we didn’t sink, so it probably wasn’t the Mafia, but the channel was still beautiful.